I used the vendor reagent contract/proposal/organizational pricing. You need
the cost for each reagent, bulk, detection, ancillaries, slides, coverslips,
labels and antibody. I broke it down by each component in the per slide unit,
then figured it the other way by adding each individual cost for each antibody
on the menu to get a cost/IHC test for each test on the current IHC menu. I
then added the overhead estimate %, instrumentation costs/maintenance/repair
contract annualized, and an estimated wage/labor unit based on time and
wage/hour . You can then look at these types of costs too, which could be added
in to the cost/test or looked at separately. This gives a pretty good estimate
of operational cost/test. I put this against the current reimburshment/test for
reference. You can do the same thing with any routine process in the lab. This
is just how I did it. I used excel to do the calculations.
Joelle Weaver MAOM, HTL (ASCP) QIHC
> From: craiga...@gmail.com
> Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 16:27:49 -0700
> To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu
> Subject: [Histonet] Cost Analysis:
>
> Hello Histonet,
>
> Can someone please help me with a formula to figure out cost/analysis of IHC
> antibody per slide, detection system per slide?
>
> I am trying to break down all of our current lab costs (even processing) and
> I am new at this any help is greatly appreciated.
>
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